Two videos by Guy Stevens about adding warning sign icons to your solution. Also, Stevens is offering online video training at Udemy.com for those interested. Published on Mar 12, 2015 Add multiple warning signs, badges, pictograms, icons or any kind of pictures to your database to display on other layouts. File: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1… Check out my […]
Some interesting posts from the world of design: Does Your Dashboard Suck? – Captaindash. I’ve seen a few. 20 Perfect Color Palettes For Your Next Design Project I find color palettes very useful, since I can’t pick them myself. 1000s of Vector Graphics for Every Design Situation. You have to purchase these, but there are a lot and the […]
FileMaker Function of the Week is back after a short break. And Stuart Gripman tackles the Average function this time around: After a brief hiatus, the Function of the Week is back and just as ordinary, normal, typical, standard and regular as ever! Why so mundane? Because we’re picking apart the Average function this week and […]
Courtesy of Dr. Andy Cohen and Lee Strong: Thu, 19 March 2015 337_FM_Success_Tips InspectorPro 5, Data Driven Graphics, Mandelbulb.com Direct download: 337_FM_Success_Tips.mp3 Category:podcasts — posted at: 5:30 PM Filemaker Success Tips 337
Windows Outlook Compatibility with FileMaker Pro If you encounter unexpected problems using Outlook as a client when using the “Send via Email Client” script step, this article may clear up your problems: The FileMaker platform allows you to interact and exchange data with many different applications and technologies. Besides being able to import and export […]
First look: Google Calendar Integrations for FileMaker, from Feedzon: Google Calendar Integration for FileMaker Feedzon Calendar is a simple yet powerful API enabling you to easily integrate your FileMaker solutions with Google Calendar in as little as just one script step. Support is provided for both free Google and Google Apps accounts and there are no […]
A good listen while you exercise or during drive time to work. Thu, 12 March 2015 336_FM_Success_Tips Reports Model Part 3, Search, Sort, Go Specific record, Replace Some Text Direct download: 336_FM_Success_Tips.mp3 Category:podcasts — posted at: 5:30 PM Filemaker Success Tips : 336_FM_Success_Tips.
I’ve been exploring the latest version Seedcode Complete, released 3 months ago. This version is designed us on the Selector Connector design model, is extremely modular, and keeps the focus of the user on a multi-use design type. Modules of information, easily available with this system, slide in and out, with an occasional popover to display more […]
Another great example of the power of FileMaker and FileMaker Go to solve large problems in short order, this time from Bangladesh: Faced with evaluating nearly 1,100 factories in Bangladesh for fire and building safety hazards, engineering and consulting firm Hughes Associates, Inc., needed a way to streamline the inspection and reporting process on behalf […]
I am always on the lookout for more information about design principles, and I stumbled across this interesting website with links to various different aspects of the user experience (UX). After looking it over, I wondered how others defined UX, and found this: User Experience (UX) involves a person’s behaviors, attitudes, and emotions about using a […]
Guy Stevens is using Udemy, a web based service offering real life instruction with thousands of courses, as a vehicle for delivering a 6 hour course on designing a complete FileMaker invoicing system. The cost of the course is $25, and instruction is broken into smaller segments similar for easier understanding. Check out the details […]
Douglas Alder shows that simpler is sometimes better. Imagine a project management module with a set of pre-defined templates for different types of projects. And see how you can easily add, at the click of a button, all the steps from a value list to a portal that is setup correctly. Occasionally when developing in FileMaker […]
This is a short video by Richard Carlton about the timekeeping functions added to Starting Point as of V4.3. Some things to consider should you want to build (or modify ) a robust timekeeping and/or time tracking database of your own: Use Global fields or a script to set the start time and the end time into […]
Seedcode sells ProMaps and GoMaps, both open code solutions designed to easily allow multi-point google maps in FileMaker. And, as is always the case, developers extend the capabilities of the original code to encompass some neat results: Filtering (and Color Coding) Based on Found Sets. This first mod was done by Lisette Wilson of Informing Designs; she’s linked […]
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